A Lake Tahoe Community College instructor is interested in the mean number of days Lake Tahoe Community College math students are absent from class during a quarter. Consider the following. X = number of days a Lake Tahoe Community College math student is absent In this case, X is an example of which of the following?

a. variable

b. population

c. statistic

d. data

a. variable

Step-by-step explanation:

X = number of days a Lake Tahoe Community College math student is absent

X is a random variable.

A random variable is a variable whose value is a numerical outcome of a random phenomenon.

A random variable's possible values might represent the possible outcomes of a yet-to-be-performed experiment.

Random variables are often denoted with capital letter s and they can be discrete or continuous.